263: No Such Thing As Millipede Lipbalm
No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
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🗓️ 5 April 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Live from Cambridge, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss silk-spinning goats, the invention of the scooter, and millipede PR problems.
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| 0:00.0 | Uh... |
| 0:02.0 | Did you know that I'm not a fan of the game? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm not a fan of the game... |
| 0:06.0 | I'm not a fan of the game... |
| 0:08.0 | Oh! |
| 0:22.0 | Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | This week coming to you live from Cambridge! |
| 0:35.0 | Hi, my name is Dan Schreiber, and I am sitting here with Anit Zinski, Andrew Hunter Murray, and James Harkin. |
| 0:41.0 | And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days, and in no particular order, here we go. |
| 0:49.0 | Starting with my fact, my fact this week is that adult scooters were invented by a Swiss banker who was hungry for a sausage. |
| 1:00.0 | That's true. This was in the 1990s. |
| 1:04.0 | There was a man who was a Dutch Swiss banker, and he was called a Wim Orbiter, and he was at home one night, and he suddenly really wanted to a sausage. |
| 1:14.0 | And he thought, you know, it's what he called a microdistance. |
| 1:19.0 | It wasn't far enough to get in a car and drive there and find car parking. |
| 1:23.0 | What, a sausage shop? |
| 1:25.0 | He had a favorite sausage shop, and it wasn't close enough that he could walk to it, and he thought, why is there not a device that I could use to get me there? |
| 1:32.0 | And then he suddenly had the idea of turning what was only available really for kids, kid scooters. |
| 1:37.0 | Why not make an adult version of that? |
| 1:40.0 | So he invented that as a result. |
| 1:42.0 | But by the time he's invented it, he's not going to want a sausage any more, is he? |
| 1:45.0 | No, that's a sad bit of this story. |
| 1:47.0 | He's starved to death in the manufacturing process. |
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